Prayer: Shi‘ah Evidence for the Timing of Daily Obligatory Prayers

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Prayer: Shi‘ah Evidence for the Timing of Daily Obligatory Prayers

English:

Question #344:

What is the proof on which the Shī‘ah rely concerning the times of daily obligatory prayers? As you know, at the beginning time of the ‘ishā’ Sunnīs say that the maghrib prayer has lapsed and has become qaḍā’; and so is the case with the noon and the afternoon prayer. Accordingly, they believe that when the time of the ‘ishā’ prayers begins and the imam stands up to perform it, the person who prays behind him cannot perform the maghrib prayer with him in order to perform both prayers side by side.

Answer #344:

The proof is represented by the generality of Qur’anic verses and the noble Sunnah in addition to the traditions that specifically indicate the permissibility of performing such prayers together. Moreover, Sunnīs also have some traditions that prove the permissibility of performing the two prayers during the time of one of them.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer